In early March a cohort of University of Oregon School of Journalism
and Communication students participated in a weekend multimedia workshop
in order to profile musicians performing at the Portland Jazz Festival,
put on by the non-profit PDX Jazz.
After dividing themselves into teams of three or four, each
student-comprised team had three days to shoot and edit together a video
profiling a band or artist performing at the event.

Drummer Ron Steen is a legend and leader within Portland's jazz community. "You can play in a way where you can never make a mistake all night long, where the average person says, 'That's a really good performance,'" says Steen.
"And it would be. Technically, that would be. But it may not be the
most emotionally honest thing that you can do. Really putting yourself
out there, really being naked, and really playing in that moment, magic
can happen, and a lot of tragedy can happen. "